Novotel Sydney Darling Square
33°52′39″ S 151°12′11″ E

Today was an exciting day – well, at least the afternoon was!

This morning we were on a mission to get our laundry done. We have been on the road for almost 3 weeks & “essential” clothing items are getting to be in very short supply! Photo below – awesome mural on our hotel.

Unfortunately our hotel does not have any guest laundry facilities & the cost of having the hotel doing our laundry for us was prohibitive – not like India! So we loaded up our backpacks with our dirty laundry & searched on Google Maps for a nearby laundromat. There was one not too far away so we headed out on our quest.

We found the laundromat on a busy neighborhood street & fortunately there also was a comfy coffee shop just a few steps away. We were able to relax a bit while our our laundry was underway. Then back to the hotel for more sorting & folding. Job done! That should hold us until we get on board the cruise ship.

Next on the agenda was to find some place for lunch. There are dozens of restaurants along the Darling Harbour promenade & we found one with a nice patio table overlooking the water. Catherine had a nice & sensible cauliflower salad while I took a ride on the wild side & had a kangaroo burger, or, as I dubbed it as “Skippy on a bun”. Tasted like hamburgers to me!

After lunch we walked all the way down to the end of the promenade which took us past the Australian National Maritime Museum that had some very cool boats parked outside!

On our way back to the hotel we had a quick visit to a Chinese Tea Exposition at the Sydney Convention Center. Catherine found a nice wall unit for our apartment that was on sale for “only” $15,000!

We did pretty good today & walked over 16 kilometers. Back home I’d be doing well to walk that distance in a month.

Tomorrow I am going to visit the maritime museum & Catherine has a water-oriented adventure of her own planned.

Cheers!